{"id":390297,"date":"2015-08-30T13:08:45","date_gmt":"2015-08-30T18:08:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=390297"},"modified":"2015-08-31T14:45:40","modified_gmt":"2015-08-31T19:45:40","slug":"boulter-middle-school-receives-20000-verizon-grant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=390297","title":{"rendered":"Boulter Middle School Receives $20,000 Verizon Grant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/image003.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/image003-200x61.jpg\" alt=\"image003\" width=\"200\" height=\"61\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-390298\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/image003-200x61.jpg 200w, https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2015\/08\/image003.jpg 258w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Boulter Middle School has received a $20,000 Verizon-Project Lead the Way (PLTW) grant to use toward Introduction to Computer Sciences (ICS) classes. According to a Tyler ISD news release, the grant will allow Boulter students to expand their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) focus to include specialized units in Computer Science.  The PLTW funds will be disbursed over the course of two years and will be used to pay for the costs associated with integrating ICS classes (Introduction to Computer Science I and Introduction to Computer Science II) into Boulter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s curriculum beginning with the 2015-2016 school year.<!--more--> <\/p>\n<p>All students are eligible to enroll in the ICS classes during the grant period, according to the release. For the first year, eighth-grade students will have priority for enrollment. Additionally, Boulter staff and students will have opportunities to share their ICS experiences with a national audience through PLTW communications.  Principal Rodney Curry says staff and students \u00e2\u20ac\u0153are excited about this new partnership and the endless possibilities,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d according to the news release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TYLER \u00e2\u20ac\u201d Boulter Middle School has received a $20,000 Verizon-Project Lead the Way (PLTW) grant to use toward Introduction to Computer Sciences (ICS) classes. According to a Tyler ISD news release, the grant will allow Boulter students to expand their Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) focus to include specialized units in Computer Science. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=390297\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boulter Middle School Receives $20,000 Verizon Grant<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":390298,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-390297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-22 07:58:25","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=390297"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":390328,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390297\/revisions\/390328"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/390298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=390297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=390297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=390297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}